Washing-machine



UNITE Fic JOHN T. BEVER, OF HAYNESVILLE, MISSOURI.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 15,084, dated June 3, 1856.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. BEvER, of Haynesville, in the county of Clinton and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vashing Implements, Especially Adapted to the| Ordinar)7 Wash-Tub; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

One of the prominent advantages of this improvementis its eXtreme simplicity, by which the cost is materially reduced; and as it neither requires boX or tub for its especial use, the objections to machines as ordinarily constructed do not apply, and so great are the objections from leaking, consequent to the swelling and shrinking` of wood, of the joints of ordinary washing machines, that their value is greatly impaired, and frequently they are rendered wholly useless j besides their costing four times as much as my invention; all these objections I have been enabled to set aside by adapting my improvement to the common wash tub and as it requires no immediate connection with the tub, it may be removed from it leaving the tub to be used without any detriment thereto.

The improvement also consists in so co-nstructing the machine that it shall have a partial rotary combined with a vertical movement of the rubber, when the lever operating the same is raised or depressed, While by the spring loops fastening the clothes to the rubber and the spring under bed; sufficient movement is allowed the clothes in these side movements in the act of rubbing, so as to prevent injury to them bythe requisite friction in remo-ving the soil at the wrists, collars &c.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, in Figure l, which is an elevation, A, represents the base formed of a solid block of wood; b, Z), Z2, rounds or bars inserted therein at short distances apart, and rising form an'open cylinder; the upper ends of the rounds are united by a fiat hoop of metal or wood c, 0,' B is an upright or post rising outside of the cylinder b I); D, is a lever pivoted on a bolt at the top of B; E, the stem of the rubber F, this stem is connected with a free turning joint to the lever D, whose oflice will be hereafter explained. G is an arm projecting from the stem E; on its underside is passed the cord or rope il.; this cord has one end fastened to the edge of the cylinder while the other end is att-ached to a helical spring H, it will be perceived that on raising the stem E, and arm G, that the same will be be drawn from the spring H, by the cord t, while in depressing it the same spring in its contraction, draws the arm, and with it the rubber toward it, thus producing a partial rotary movement, combined with the reciprocating movement ob tained by the lever, thus rinsing the clothes during the descent and ascent of the disk F.

In Fig. 3, which is a central section will be seen the helical springs z', z', attached to the upper surface of the rubber F; a cord 7c is placed with a loop over the upper end of the spring, and the ends thereof passing through F, united below form a loop in which the clothes are to be suspended, under the rubber F, is a second one L, formed like F, with a corrugated surface, instead of being firmly placed on the bottom A, it is supported by helical springs Z Z, whose otlice is to give gently when the clothes are unduly pressed by the lever D, and also serving as an accommodating principle when irregularity occurs in the placing the clothes in the loops, while at the same time from its being full of holes, the passage of water great-ly facilitates the washing. In placing the clothes in the loops 7c, 7c, it is best to gather the wrist bands, and the more soiled portions near the loops as they are thus best presented to the rubbing process from forming the cylinder in an open manner, by means of the rounds, there is a freedom of the water passing in and out of the clothes; and as there is no packing such as would occur if it were simply a dasher and closed cylinder the labor of washing with this machine is greatly reduced while its efficiency is materially increased.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Pat-ent is- The lever D, stem E and rubber F when used in combination with the arm G, cord (Il.) and spring H, for producing` a vertical and partial rotary movement of said rubber F substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name before two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN T. BEVER. Witnesses:

W. S. CLARK, H. B. HoR'roN. 

